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Calyre
Calyre rated it 5 years ago
Enfin, la maladie était vaincu. De nouveau, froide et raisonnable, Marianne se faisait l'effet d'être la seule personne sensée dans un monde de fous. Elle n'avait plus ni haine ni amour. Elle comprenait son père. Elle les comprenait tous. Qui comprend ne hait pas.
Themis-Athena's Garden of Books
Themis-Athena's Garden of Books rated it 6 years ago
Anne Perry: A Christmas Guest The third book in Anne Perry's series of Christmas novellas, each one of which has as their protagonist one of the supporting characters from Perry's main series (William Monk, and Charlotte & Thomas Pitt). This installment's starring role goes to Charlotte Pitt's vin...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 10 years ago
bookshelves: nobel-laureate, sweden, lit-richer, published-1891, spring-2015, film-only, debut, teh-demon-booze Read from February 05 to March 07, 2015 Description: The eponymous hero, a country pastor whose appetite for alcohol and indiscretions ends his career, falls in with a dozen vagrant S...
Nithou's Readings
Nithou's Readings rated it 10 years ago
Un ensemble de contes nordiques, charmants, très poétiques, un peu fantastique, plein d'apprentissages aussi sur la nature humaine, ses méandres, sa complexité et ses errements. Je ne connaissais pas du tout l'auteur, ça donne envie d'en découvrir un peu plus :)
javajunco
javajunco rated it 13 years ago
Too boring, I couldn't finish.
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 13 years ago
translationtbr busting 20123Msspring 2012ebookGutenberg172 ratingsswedishKejsarn av Portugallien (1914) Translated by Velma Swanston HowardOpening - THE BEATING HEART: Jan of Ruffluck Croft never tired of telling about the day when his little girl came into the world. In the early morning he had bee...
Allusion is not Illusion
Allusion is not Illusion rated it 13 years ago
When a farm couple's lovely baby is stolen and replaced with an ugly, trouble-making troll baby, everyone but the heart-broken mother thinks the changeling should be killed, or at least abused in hopes that his mother will take him back. When she refuses, everyone ostracizes her, but she resolutely ...
Manny Rayner's book reviews
Manny Rayner's book reviews rated it 41 years ago
The greatest book you never even heard of. One would imagine that winning the Nobel Prize ought to raise your profile a little, but apparently not.Come on... tell me I'm wrong and you know it well, and I'll be so grateful to you!
Manny Rayner's book reviews
Manny Rayner's book reviews rated it 43 years ago
Larger-than-life Swedish epic, with some great images. Not sure how well her beautiful poetic Swedish translates though - maybe this is why the book is virtually unknown in English.
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